There are plenty old movies I have seen or would love to see, but very few of those were made before 1940, and 1940 won’t reach public domain for another 15 years.

Source? While they may have some corruption, they also have functioning judiciaries and laws in place to protect civil rights. It’s not like they just execute people for minor violations

Petro has very sane demands here…he will only receive them on civilian planes being treated with respect, and is turning away military planes carrying people in chains.

According to the data in this article, the number of births in Alabama has remained pretty static since 2010, but there was a big jump up in deaths each year since 2020. I wonder what was behind that

I suppose I’m no expert on this specific conflict, but wasn’t it to stop the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and ended up being an almost universally acclaimed, highly effective, brief intervention that achieved its clearly defined goals?

I wasn’t old enough to remember the politics at that time, but I do remember George W.'s invasion of Iraq in 2003, and protested in the streets. That conflict seemed to have no plan or goals besides making money for defense contractors. That conflict squandered any goodwill the US had left on the world stage. I still view it as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

The Act permits the President to grant a one-time extension of no more than 90 days with respect to the prohibitions’ 270-day effective date if the President makes certain certifications to Congress regarding progress toward a qualified divestiture.

Here’s last week’s full Supreme Court ruling this quote is from: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

If Oracle and Microsoft, or basically any other western entity, purchase Tiktok from ByteDance, then this law will no longer apply. The law only applies due to ByteDance being a Chinese-based company

That’s a big leap from “235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942” to “all men.”

I’m having no problem with YouTube using Firefox and uBlock on Android

I personally would not. I’ve lived most of my life now in a very blue area in a very red state, and I love it here. But, while I put the “B” in LGBTQ and am in a committed relationship that’s far from monogamous, I’m superficially a cishet white man, and in general I’m treated with more respect by people who have irrational prejudices than many others.

I use that respect to advocate for the rights of others, and I’m not going to stop being an advocate in Texas. I have friends who are gay, lesbian, and trans who feel the same way and aren’t going anywhere. I would like them all to fight by my side, but I also don’t begrudge anyone who feels like they need to leave this state for safety reasons. This applies particularly acutely to parents of trans children who have to leave to access gender affirming care and not be subject to prosecution.

All that said, if you’re not an EU citizen but are eligible for citizenship, that does sound like an enticing option. How long would it take you to establish citizenship there? At that point, you’d have dual citizenship and could freely move on either continent. So it boils down to whether you want that or not. Minnesota seems like a fine place to live (but way colder than I could ever tolerate), but so do some EU countries. How will you adapt to the culture? Will you be alright living in an entirely different culture or will you miss US culture too much? What does your current support system look like, and how would you feel about leaving it? You’ve got a lot to think about!

Oh my god give it a rest. Are you being paid by a right-wing billionaire to type this stuff?

You’re down right now, but you have to trust it’s not going to be this way forever and keep moving forward. I don’t don’t know where you’re at, but there are a lot of homeless service agencies out there doing work that could help you. Try reaching out to the United Way in your area for guidance. You can often call them at 211, or locate them here. Look for food banks, churches, or your local mental health authority (which varies a lot by state). If you share what region you’re in we might be able to give you more specific advice. Good luck to you brother

I’m calling it now that he doesn’t get confirmed. He’s going to sound insane at his confirmation hearings because he’s insane, and he’s by no means a dyed-in-the-wool MAGA, so they will view it as not hurting one of their own.

Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand people from being murdered by Nazis only because he manipulated the system from within. He and everyone he saved would have been murdered if he had resisted the Nazi Party in a different way.

The world has a bit more to it than just automobiles

Religiosity and conspiratorial thinking are both based in a rejection of logic and really aren’t very far from each other.

That’s because the polar vortex slid off the Arctic onto North America, allowing warmer air to creep northward on your side of the globe. I remember in '21, while we had record cold in the southern US, Siberia was on fire.

Local Fox affiliates are not Fox News

I don’t know what exactly “came out” here, there’s no evidence whatsoever presented in this article

Little drops of gasoline raining down on your head

Oh, you were making a joke. The community you linked to is about scientific discoveries related to the field of medicine, and honestly a majority of the content comes from the US, which still conducts cutting edge medical research. Don’t bring politics into that community.